IRAQ, THIRD QUARTER 2020: Update on incidents according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) compiled by ACCORD, 18 March 2021 Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality Number of reported fatalities National borders: GADM, 6 May 2018b; administrative divisions: GADM, 6 May 2018a; incid- ent data: ACLED, 12 March 2021; coastlines and inland waters: Smith and Wessel, 1 May 2015 IRAQ, THIRD QUARTER 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 18 MARCH 2021 Contents Conflict incidents by category Number of Number of reported fatalities 1 Number of Number of Category incidents with at incidents fatalities Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality 1 least one fatality Protests 591 0 0 Conflict incidents by category 2 Explosions / Remote 575 92 241 Development of conflict incidents from September 2018 to September violence 2020 2 Battles 245 163 412 Riots 160 1 3 Methodology 3 Strategic developments 147 1 5 Conflict incidents per province 4 Violence against civilians 106 55 75 Localization of conflict incidents 4 Total 1824 312 736 This table is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 12 March 2021). Disclaimer 6 Development of conflict incidents from September 2018 to September 2020 This graph is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 12 March 2021). 2 IRAQ, THIRD QUARTER 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 18 MARCH 2021 Methodology on what level of detail is reported. Thus, towns may represent the wider region in which an incident occured, or the provincial capital may be used if only the province The data used in this report was collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event is known. Erroneous location data, especially due to identical place names, cannot Data Project (ACLED). ACLED collects data on reported conflict events in selected be fully excluded. African and Asian countries, Iraq being among them. ACLED researchers collect event data from a variety of sources and code them by date, location, agent, and Incidents comprise the following categories: battles, headquarters or bases es- event type. tablished, non-violent strategic activities, riots/protests, violence against civilians, non-violent transfer of territory, remote violence. For details on these categories, Most of the data collected by ACLED is gathered based on publicly available, please see secondary reports. It may therefore underestimate the volume of events. Fatal- ity data particularly is vulnerable to bias and inaccurate reporting, and ACLED • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict states to use the most conservative estimate available. ACLED uses the reports’ Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) Codebook (2019), 10 April 2019a context to estimate fatalities for events with reported fatalities for which the exact https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2017/10/ number is unknown (“10” for plural fatalities, “100” if “hundreds” are mentioned, ACLED_Codebook_2019FINAL_pbl.pdf etc.). For further details on ACLED and for the full data, see www.acleddata.com and Raleigh; Linke; Hegre, and Karlsen, 2010. • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) User Quick Guide, April 2019b Based on this data, the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin & Asylum Research https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2019/04/ and Documentation (ACCORD) compiles updates on conflict incidents and pub- General-User-Guide_FINAL.pdf lishes them on ecoi.net to offer another access point to the ACLED datasets. • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: FAQs: ACLED Fatality It is advised to employ extreme caution when using fatality numbers. Methodology, 27 January 2020 https://www.acleddata.com/download/17979/ Assessments of the security situation should not be based solely on quantitative analysis of event data. Geographic map data is primarily based on GADM, complemented with other sources if necessary. Incidents are mapped to GADM provinces using the provinces in ACLED data. Province names and borders may differ between ACLED and GADM. Incidents that could not be located are ignored. The numbers included in this overview might therefore differ from the original ACLED data. ACLED uses varying degrees of geographic precision for the individual incidents, depending 3 IRAQ, THIRD QUARTER 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 18 MARCH 2021 Conflict incidents per province type, involved actors, information sources, etc.). The data’s precision varies among the incidents: a town may represent a region, or the provincial capital may be used Number of if the precise location of an incident is unkown. In the following list, the names of Number of Number of Province incidents with event locations are taken from ACLED, while the administrative region names are incidents fatalities fatalities taken from GADM data which serves as the basis for the maps above. Al-Anbar 41 17 38 Al-Basrah 175 18 22 In Al-Anbar, 41 incidents killing 38 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Ain Assad Air Base, Akashat, Al Ammari, Al Halabsa, Al-Muthannia 78 2 3 Al Mashkan, Al Muhammadi, Al Nukhib, Al Qaim, Ar Rutba, Fallujah, Haditha, Al-Qadisiyah 97 3 3 Haditha Dam, Hit, Karma, Kubaysah, Makr Al-Nuam, Ramadi, Rawah, An-Najaf 15 1 1 Tharthar. Arbil 158 25 88 As-Sulaymaniyah 45 3 12 In Al-Basrah, 175 incidents killing 22 people were reported. The following At-Ta’mim 86 28 52 locations were among the affected: Abu Sakhr, Abu al-Khaseeb, Al Burjisiyah, Al Huwayr, Al Midaina, Al Nashwa, Al Tanumah, Al Tuba wa al Nakhilah, Babil 33 2 2 Al-Faw, Al-Hartha, Al-Zubair, Ar Rumaylah, Basrah, Basrah International Baghdad 169 23 51 Airport, Karmat Ali, Khor al Zubair, Nahiyat ad Dayr, Qurna, Rumaylah Oil Dhi-Qar 211 10 18 Field, Safwan, Shilamjah Border Crossing, Umm Qasr, Uwaysan. Dihok 331 87 268 Diyala 125 43 65 In Al-Muthannia, 78 incidents killing 3 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Al Khidr, Al Majd, Al Najmi, Al Tawba, Al Karbala’ 24 3 4 Warka, As Samawah, As Suwayr, Huwayshali, Qaryat al Mamlahah, Maysan 36 6 8 Rumaitha, Sayyed Jabar. Ninawa 50 15 44 Sala ad-Din 71 26 57 In Al-Qadisiyah, 97 incidents killing 3 people were reported. The following Wasit 79 0 0 locations were among the affected: Afak, Al Budayr, As Sinniyah, Ash-Shinafiyah, Diwaniya, Hamza, Nahiyat Al Shafiyah, Nahiyat Ghammas, Nahiyat Sumir, Shamiya. Localization of conflict incidents In An-Najaf, 15 incidents killing 1 person were reported. The following locations Note: The following list is an overview of the incident data included in the ACLED were among the affected: Hayy Al Thwarah, Manathera, Nahiyat al dataset. More details are available in the actual dataset (date, location data, event Abbasiyah, Najaf. 4 IRAQ, THIRD QUARTER 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 18 MARCH 2021 In Arbil, 158 incidents killing 88 people were reported. The following locations Radwaniyah, Sabaa Al Bour, Taji, Uwayrij, Zaidan. were among the affected: Balaban, Bawlay, Erbil, Erbil International Airport, Goshina, Hajj Umran, Halgurd Mountain, Jabal Biradawst, Khalifan, In Dhi-Qar, 211 incidents killing 18 people were reported. The following Kharabah, Koisnjaq, Kudila, Layl Kan, Lolan, Makhmur, Mergasur, Naw locations were among the affected: Akaika, Al Gharraf, Al Islah, An-Nasr, Mergan, Pendro, Qarachogh Mountain, Qarachoq Mountain, Rawst, Ruala, Batha, Chibayish, Gharraf Oilfield, Nahiyat Al Tar, Nahiyat Our, Nahiyat al Rubar-i Rost, Sidakan, Silsilat Jibal Qandil, Similan, Soran, Stune, Talan, Fudaylah, Nahiyat al Fuhud, Nassriya, Qalat Sukkar, Rifai, Sayyid Dakhil, Wadi Armush, Wadi Khakurik. Shatra, Suq Al-Shoyokh, Tal al-Laham. In As-Sulaymaniyah, 45 incidents killing 12 people were reported. The following In Dihok, 331 incidents killing 268 people were reported. The following locations locations were among the affected: Bazian, Chamchamal, Halabja, Jabal were among the affected: Amadiya, Aradin, Bagera, Baluite, Bamerni, Banik Asaws, Kalalah, Kalar, Mawat, Penjwin, Pishdar, Qadir Karam, Qamish, as Sufla, Barwari, Batifa, Baze, Bersawa, Beshilk, Bildisha, Bishilah, Chaqala, Qeladize, Rania, Safra, Seyid Sadiq, Sharbazher, Sulaymaniyah, Tawkal, Chiya-e Gara, Dahuk, Dereluk, Derkar, Desta Nahle, Fish Khabur, Guheriz, Zharawa. Gulkah, Haftanin, Hiroor, Ira, Jabal Karah, Kani Masi, Karbil, Kesta, Khantur Mountain, Khilaniyeh, Khishtana, Metin, Metina, Mirwanis, Perex, Rashanke, In At-Ta’mim, 86 incidents killing 52 people were reported. The following Razuike, Ruse, Sargali, Seedan, Semel, Shaca, Sheladiz, Shiladiza, Shudin, locations were among the affected: Al Qadissiya, Altun Kupri, Arab Koy, Tirwanish, Zakho, Zawita, Zewa Shikan. Bajwan, Bashir, Bay Hasan, Daquq, Dibis, Hamrin Mountains - Kirkuk, Haweeja, Hayy Aml Al Shaabi, Kirkuk, Multaqa, Nahiyat ar Riyad, Qariyat In Diyala, 125 incidents killing 65 people were reported. The following locations Mahmoudiyah, Qaryat Al Kathahiyah, Qaryat Albu Sibah, Rahima Quta, were among the affected: Abu Karmah, Abu Saida, Abu Tamr, Al Abbarah, Al Rashad, Saqizli, Shay Valley, Talaa Dihn al -Thaniya, Tarkalan, Topzawa, Azim, Al Hadd al Akhdar, Al Jadidah,